Aussie whinging
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 12:37 am
So apparently it's open season on refs and other officials over the ditch. Matt Burke is the latest to take aim with his sour grapes gun, and the 'Strine Whine is now audible from over the Tasman.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/bledi ... r6qj3.html
The Franks incident has been done to death and I think we all agree that at least having a hearing would have been a better look. But to say there is some sort of systematic favouritism by cherry-picking a couple of alleged forward passes is petulism of the most boring kind.
Aussie rugby has got themselves into a real pickle.
-Their coach is plainly out of his depth
-Their captain is patently not the best (or even of international standard) in his position, and cannot perform the most basic task required in that position, namely hitting his lineout target
-Their captain also has some inherent quality that irritates referees so can't perfom the most basic task required of a captain
-They rely on an increasingly aging and injury-prone set of players now based overseas
So their solution is to lash out at the officials. Even then they get it wrong. Eddie Jones and Steve Hansen would have known that you accuse the officials of unconscious bias before the test matches, so that consciously over-correct to remove the accusation. Dumb old Aussie have timed this campaign worse than their own lineout jumping.*
You think they would be better off focussing on getting better at rugby, rather than whining on and on about old results. At the very least they should be playing mind games about the upcoming tests v South Africa, rather than about two historical hammerings that everyone admits would have happened in any event, even if the Jolly Swagman himself had been the ref.
*The best description of the Aussie lineout is in the latest Mud & Blood podcast - "Like a drunken rowing team attemtping to head butt a pub ceiling."
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/bledi ... r6qj3.html
The Franks incident has been done to death and I think we all agree that at least having a hearing would have been a better look. But to say there is some sort of systematic favouritism by cherry-picking a couple of alleged forward passes is petulism of the most boring kind.
Aussie rugby has got themselves into a real pickle.
-Their coach is plainly out of his depth
-Their captain is patently not the best (or even of international standard) in his position, and cannot perform the most basic task required in that position, namely hitting his lineout target
-Their captain also has some inherent quality that irritates referees so can't perfom the most basic task required of a captain
-They rely on an increasingly aging and injury-prone set of players now based overseas
So their solution is to lash out at the officials. Even then they get it wrong. Eddie Jones and Steve Hansen would have known that you accuse the officials of unconscious bias before the test matches, so that consciously over-correct to remove the accusation. Dumb old Aussie have timed this campaign worse than their own lineout jumping.*
You think they would be better off focussing on getting better at rugby, rather than whining on and on about old results. At the very least they should be playing mind games about the upcoming tests v South Africa, rather than about two historical hammerings that everyone admits would have happened in any event, even if the Jolly Swagman himself had been the ref.
*The best description of the Aussie lineout is in the latest Mud & Blood podcast - "Like a drunken rowing team attemtping to head butt a pub ceiling."
